Stefânia de Sousa Faria

Stefânia Faria

Academic position:	PhD Student
Joining date:	01-06-2019
Roles in IT:	PhD Student
Thematic Line:	Wireless Technologies
Group:	Antennas and Propagation – Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
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Tel: +351 21 841 84 54
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19-12-2021

IT researchers distinguished with the Research Award and the Best Student Paper Award URSI 2021

Researchers from IT were distinguished within the scope of the 15th Congress of the Portuguese Committee of URSI.

Scientific Achievements

Thesis Information

A Generic Fire Electromagnetic Simulator (GFES), Instituto Superior Técnico, PhD Student, Stefânia de Sousa Faria, Supervisor: C. A. Fernandes, Co-supervisor: N. Leonor, set-2021 - ago-2025

Publications

1Books Chapters

T.O. Oliveira, M. Vala, S. Faria, J. R. Reis, N. Leonor, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, A Study on Small Sensor Node Antenna Performance Camouflaged Under Grassland Fire, Chapter in, Internet of Things. Technology and Applications. IFIPIoT 2021., Camarinha-Matos L.M., Heijenk G., Katkoori S., Strous L., Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland, 2022

5Papers in Journals

M. Vala, S. Faria, P. Coimbra, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Effects of Fire Plumes from Pine Needles on Small-scale Fading in Radiowave Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 71, No. 4, pp. 3473 - 3484, April, 2023,
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S. Faria, M. Vala, P. Coimbra, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Measurement Trials and Modeling of Radio Propagation Through Small-scale Fire using Pinus Pinaster Fuel Bed, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 581 - 585, March, 2023,
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N. Leonor, S. Faria, G. Ramos, P. Castellanos, C. Ron, L. Mello, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Site-specific Radio Propagation Model for Macrocell Coverage at Sub-6 GHz Frequencies, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 70, No. 10, pp. 9706 - 9715, October, 2022,
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N. Leonor, S. Faria, M. Vala, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, A Combined ITM and LITU-R Model for Enhanced Radio Coverage Predictions of Mission Critical Communications in Mountainous Vegetated Terrains, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 21, No. 9, pp. 1777 - 1781, September, 2022,
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M. Vala, S. Faria, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Complex permittivity study of a Pinus Pinaster needle bed on fire, URSI Radio Science Bulletin, Vol. 2021, No. 378, pp. 14 - 21, September, 2021 | BibTex

14Papers in Conferences

G. Ramos, C. Ron, N. Leonor, S. Faria, P. Castellanos, L. Mello, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Mobile Channel Multipath Measurements and Statistical Characterization in Sub-6 GHz Bands, IEEE SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC), Castelldelfs, Spain, Vol., pp. -, November, 2023,
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Y. Nuñez, LL Lovisolo, L. Mello, G. Ramos, N. Leonor, S. Faria, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Path Loss Prediction for Vehicular-to-Infrastructure Communication using Machine Learning Techniques, IEEE IEEE Virtual Conference on Communications IEEE VCC, Conference online, Vol., pp. -, November, 2023,
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S. Faria, M. Vala, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Modelling of Radiowave Propagation Through Small-scale Forest Fire, URSI Atlantic Radio Science Meeting AT-AP-RASC, Gran Canaria, Spain, May, 2022,
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S. Faria, M. Vala, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Measurement Trials of Radiowave Propagation Through Pinus Pinaster Fuel Bed Under Fire, European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Madrid, Spain, March, 2022,
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M. Vala, S. Faria, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Complex Permittivity Study of a Pinus Pinaster Needle Bed on Fire, ANACOM URSI 15.º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI ''Sustentabilidade ambiental no uso do espectro radioelétrico, Leiria, Portugal, November, 2021,
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S. Faria, M. Vala, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Electromagnetic study of complex permittivity on a medium-scale flat terrain fire scenario, Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, Vigo, Spain, September, 2021,
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S. Faria, M. Vala, P. Coimbra, J. M. Felício, N. Leonor, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Analytical Studies of Refractive Index Variation in Pine Needles Media under Wildfire Conditions, The European Conference on Antennas and Propagation - EuCAP, Düsseldorf, Germany, March, 2021,
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G. Ramos, N. Leonor, S. Faria, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, P. Castellanos, C. Ron, L. Mello, Parabolic Equation Technique Applied to an Urban Scenario in Rio de Janeiro, Conference on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Leiria, Portugal, February, 2021,
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S. Faria, M. Vala, P. Coimbra, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Radiowave Propagation Modelling of Dual Wildfire Front Spreading over Hilly Terrain at 700 MHz, Telecoms Conference ConfTELE, Leiria, Portugal, February, 2021,
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P. Coimbra, S. Faria, M. Vala, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, N. Leonor, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, C. Salema, Experimental Setup for Radio Characterization of Fire at Microwave Frequencies, Telecoms Conference ConfTELE, Leiria, Portugal, February, 2021,
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S. Faria, M. Vala, P. Coimbra, J. M. Felício, N. Leonor, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Comparative Study of Computational Electromagnetics Applied to Radiowave Propagation in Wildfires, URSI International Union of Radio Science General Assembly & Scientific Symposium URSI GASS, Rome, Italy, September, 2020,
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S. Faria, N. Leonor, C. A. Fernandes, J. M. Felício, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Radiowave Propagation Modelling in the Presence of Wildfires: Initial Results, European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Copenhagen, Denmark, March, 2020,
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S. Faria, Integral operators formulation for transient radiation from parabolic antennas using modified raised cosine feeder, International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Symposium (ACES), Firenze, Italy, March, 2017,
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S. Faria, The EMC Impact due Household Appliances in Smart Grid Networks, Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Guangzhou, China, August, 2014,
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Projects

Closed Projects1

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
RESCuE-TOOL	Radio coverage for emergency communication systems to operate under critical wildfire environments TOOL	FCT	31-12-2018	27-02-2023

Other Scientific Achievements

2Awards

M. Vala, S. Faria, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Complex Permittivity Study of a Pinus Pinaster Needle Bed on Fire, Best Student Paper Award - 1st Place at ANACOM: 15.º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, 01-11-2021
S. Faria, M. Vala, P. Coimbra, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Radiowave Propagation Modelling of Dual Wildfire Front Spreading Over Hilly Terrain at 700 MHz, ConfTELE 2021 Top 10% Best Paper Award. Seven papers (10%) were nominated for consideration for this award by the Reviewers and the Technical Program Committee., 01-02-2021

IT Member Profile

Stefânia Faria

19-12-2021

IT researchers distinguished with the Research Award and the Best Student Paper Award URSI 2021

Scientific Achievements

Closed Projects1